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...destructive for one superpower to relinquish as long as its rival has them. Therefore, insofar as the nation's suddenly heightened fear of nuclear war might ever get converted into pressure for unilateral disarmament, so much the worse...
...Insofar as these ideals are universally human, the obligation is real, if less manageable than the cube analogy would suggest. Unfortunately, the Administration's puzzle solvers lean towards the engineer's approach to foreign policy take the cube apart, cut the knot with Trident and Lance missiles and try to join the frayed ends...
...restore order, the Warsaw Pact would do it for him. Though Jaruzelski emphasized last week that Poland remained a sovereign state, many people regarded the crackdown as a Soviet invasion by proxy. On Tuesday, some 30 ranking Soviet officers were observed disembarking from a military plane. Nonetheless, insofar as Western journalists could tell, the two Soviet armored divisions based in Poland were not involved and remained in their garrisons...
...qualities of the simple, clear French style. Taneyev visited Paris in 1877-78; Tcherepnin did the same in 1921 because of political troubles in Tibilisi, where he had moved. The Tcherepnin trio shows the influence of contemporary French composers like Darius Milhaud. But the trios resemble each other only insofar as Tcherepnin's father Nikolai was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, who had been friends with Taneyev. It is unlikely, though, that Taneyev had a significant influence on Rimsky-Korsakov, who composed 'Flight of the Bumble Bee" (destined to become the theme song of The Green Hornet...
...CHARGE THAT government subsidies encourage artists to forget the public--to become self-indulgent. But Sir Roy, who also faces calls for more participation in major funding decisions by the artists themselves, insists. "The Arts Council exists not for the artists but for the public, and to serve artists insofar as they serve the public...We have precise box office returns on every night of every show we support. We know whether it plays to full or quarter capacity and we take that into account. Not as the criterion but a criterion. You may have an experimental production which gets...